Most Expensive Sculptures Sold at Auction (All Time)

About This Dataset

Sculptures and three-dimensional artworks ranked by hammer price at public auction in millions of USD. Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man) sold at Christie's New York in 2015 for $141.3 million — becoming the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction and the highest price achieved for any work of art created after 1945. The price reflected both Giacometti's towering status in 20th-century art and the extreme scarcity of major bronze sculptures from his peak period in post-war Paris.

Analysis

L'Homme au doigt (Giacometti) (141.3), Chariot (Giacometti) (100.9) and La Montagne sans fin (Brancusi) (71) take the top three in Auction Price (Million USD) in 2023. Values run from 141.3 at the top to 16.2 at the bottom, a spread of 125.1. First and second are separated by 40.4, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Only 3 of the 8 reach even half the leader's figure (70.7 or more).

Source: Wikipedia

Key Findings

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L'Homme au doigt (Giacometti) leads in Auction Price (Million USD) with 141.30 in 2023.

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2015 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.

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Gap in 2023: L'Homme au doigt (Giacometti) is 8.7× larger than Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Boccioni).

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Data Points

8 categories · 5 years

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Top Value

141.30

L'Homme au doigt (Giacometti)

Auction Price (Million USD) · 2015

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Auction Price (Million USD)

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2013 – 2023

5 years of data

Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia
Coverage: 8 entities · 2013–2023 (5 years) · 8 observations
Measure: Auction Price (Million USD)
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Auction Price (Million USD) · ranked by 2023

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#	Category	2013	2014	2015	2018	2023	Change
🥇	L'Homme au doigt (Giacometti)	—	—	141.30	—	—	—
🥈	Chariot (Giacometti)	—	100.90	—	—	—	—
🥉	La Montagne sans fin (Brancusi)	—	—	—	—	71	—
4	Balloon Dog Orange (Jeff Koons)	58.40	—	—	—	—	—
5	Popeye (Jeff Koons)	—	28.20	—	—	—	—
6	Grande Femme Debout I (Giacometti)	—	—	27.40	—	—	—
7	Bird in Space (Brancusi)	—	—	—	26.70	—	—
8	Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Boccioni)	16.20	—	—	—	—	—